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n.
A mixture of high-energy foods, such as nuts and dried fruit, eaten as a snack.

[Origin unknown.]


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Eaten as a snack, this dry mixture consists of a combination of foods, usually nuts, seeds, raisins or other dried fruit and oats. It's particularly favored by hikers and campers as an energy booster.

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[CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another metasyntactic variable, like foo and bar.


 
 

 

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